Etty Hillesum

En un recorrido desde la antigüedad hasta nuestros días, la autora presenta el discurso de filósofos sobre la diferencia sexual, oscilante entre androcentrismo y misoginia, y da voz a mujeres que han tratado de afirmar una perspectiva femenina en la filosofía, desde Hildegarda a María Zambrano, pasando por Margarita Porete, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt y Luce Irigaray, entre otras.

When flying an airplane was no more than a reckless act, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly cross the Atlantic and the Pacific alone. Besides her exploits as a pilot, she wrote three books and many articles reporting on her trips, and become one of the primary promoters of aviation. Her last adventure was to fly around the world. Before arriving at the second-to-last phase of her itinerary, a storm ended her life and that of her copilot, Frederick J. Noonan.

Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy", American Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent some 23 agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He here recalls how it was only through an utter reliance on God's will that he managed to endure. He tells of the courage he found in prayer - a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustrations, the anguish, the fears, the despair. For, as Ciszek relates, the solace of spiritual contemplation gave him an inner serenity upon which he was able to draw amid the "arrogance of...

El texto presenta la autobiografía de Yi-Fu Tuan, es uno de los pensadores más influyentes en la actualidad pero poco conocido. Su trabajo rompe las barreras académicas tradicionales para hilar un pensamiento inédito y extremadamente sútil, a partir de disciplinas tan diversas como la filosofía, la psicología, la planificación urbana, el paisajismo y la antropología.

Los diarios de una princesa noble alemana sobre la familia, Dios y el amor; descubiertos tras su muerte a los 21 años en un accidente de tráfico.